While I won’t make any strict apologies for my general silence on here in the last two weeks (mainly because I’m sure most of you that read this know me anyway and probably couldn’t care less), it has been a little while since the last one so, erm, sorry, I guess?
I’ll tell you the main reason. There is NOTHING going on in my life at the moment, because literally the only things I’m allowed to do are go to work and go for a run. While I’m thankful to have a job, it’s arguably the most mind-numbing thing I’ve ever done and I don’t really want to re-live the days I’ve had by having to write about them too. And, my insistence that this is not a running blog (which it isn’t, okay? This isn’t a running blog, and it never will be. Alright?) may have actually backfired on me because it’s probably the most interesting thing I can do at the moment.
Seeing as I haven’t posted on here for two weeks, I could probably tell you that I’ve started a 12-week half marathon training programme and have just completed the first week, which is good I guess. Three runs so far but from tomorrow until the end it goes up to four per week. Once the gym comes back (God I miss that) I’ll have to maybe re-think the schedule a bit because I need to go to the gym at least three times a week to make it worth the fee. For now, though, it’s just a lot of running and trying to focus more on my relatively poor diet. That’s quite easy on the days I don’t work as there’s an easy 10-hour-ish block where I eat very little but tend not to starve too much. The days at home are a bit harder, though…
There’s plenty of other rubbish I could put on here but I, like pretty much everyone else, just seem to have no motivation at the moment. I’m tired nearly all of the time and the thought of sitting down to write, for the most part, is just draining at the moment. But, as the title suggests, I’ve just got to keep going. Things will get better. Hopefully by September at the very earliest I’ll be getting my career back on track with the NCTJ course. Until then it’s just about getting through.
Not really a lot to this. Just checking in to say I’m still alive and haven’t completely forgotten about the idea of having a blog after only a month. But understand, life is very boring at the moment, and I’m sure you don’t want to make it even worse by reading about boring things.
Until it gets more exciting, look after yourselves, check in on your mates and keep on going.
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